Right as I’m in the middle of reading Songs of the Dying Earth, a compilation of short stories set in Jack Vance’s Dying Earth universe, the above image of the sun being eclipsed by the Earth started to make the rounds of the Internet.

Problem #30 was solved on new ground: my first run through Project Euler was in rigid order of first to last ending at #25. The recent round of solutions mostly cover old ground, which works well for ...

Many of the writers in the anthology come from fantasy backgrounds. This is reflected in many of the stories in their very heavy focus on the fantasy elements of the series. The only real presence of technology is seen in one stories that (to me) wraps up the story of Guyal of Sfere, a tale in which the POV character wields a handheld planet killer as a (literal) truncheon and mark of his station.